Annotated Bibliography (5th Entry)

        
           Here we are. After going through the amazing research process for the first, we are finally done with our research paper!
From the very least beginning until the end, we have been paraphrasing others' ideas and quoting them. Thanks to the sources we have found and used, our research paper was an opportunity for us to learn more about sustainable tourism and the touristic strategies that Morocco is working on. In this blog entry, I would like to give the authors whose ideas were used in our research their credits. Here is the annotated bibliography of our research using the MLA style:

-       Apostolopoulos, Yorghos. Mediterranean Tourism. 2nd ed. Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2001. 226-235. Print.

Describes the development and the evolution of the Mediterranean tourism regarding socioeconomic and cultural changes. Few information were used from its chapter 15 “Moroccan Tourism” (p.226-235) written by Jacques Barbier, an expert in tourism. The used information was related to the negative impact of tourism on local communities such as emigration, imitation of tourists… 

-          Eric S. Ross, John A. Shoup, Driss Maghraoui and Abdelkrim Marzouk. Assessing Tourism in Essauira. Ifrane-Morocco. Akhawayn University in Ifrane. 2002. Print.

This book was published in 2002 by Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, its writers are who are highly qualified professors who are appreciated by their coworkers and AUI’ students. Actually, I had the chance to be in one the writers’ class in the Anthropology class. What attracted us in this book are the several sources from which the authors got the information and especially the provided definition of sustainable tourism that we needed in our research paper.

-          Hunter, F. Robert. "Manufacturing Exotica: Edith Wharton and Tourism in French Morocco, 1917-20." Middle Eastern Studies 46.1 (2010): 59-77. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 1 July 2011.

This is a peer reviewed academic journal article. It was published in 2010. It was    a very useful source for our research especially when relating the history of tourism in Morocco. However, unfortunately, we think that this article is not well organized because it contains a lot of words without numbering the sections; this slightly complicates the reading and the understanding of the content.

-       Iraqi, Fahd. "2020 entre vision et mirage." TELQUEL. 7 January 2011: 44-46. Print.

Iraqi is journalist who write economic article; thus, the article used in this research relates the impacts of “Vision 2020” on Morocco especially regarding Economy. The author of this article took his information from the Moroccan Ministry of Tourism, which makes the information more reliable. In addition, TELQUEL is a weekly magazine; it is known by its critical editorial line towards the Moroccan government.  

-          Morocco Tourism Report 2011, November 2010 accessible via http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/1445428/.

This is the official website of the Moroccan Ministry of Tourism that provide  important and recent information about the touristic plans and the strategies that Morocco is working on and relates any update regularly as a part of a transparency with Moroccans who  are interested in following the actuality in the Moroccan tourism industry. This website helped us find information about “Vision 2020” that relies on sustainable tourism and its expected impacts on Morocco.

-       Mowforth, Martin and Ian, Munt. Tourism and sustainability: new tourism in the third world. 2^nd ed. 2003. London: Routledge, 2003. Print.

Argues the support of underdeveloped countries such as Morocco on sustainability as a mean to escape from underdevelopment. This source was used mainly in the introduction to give a background information about Morocco as a Third World country and sustainability in tourism.

-       World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), 2001, 2009, and 2010.

Provides exact and reliable world tourism statistics based on professional criteria in the field of tourism. It was mainly used to give information about the ranking of Morocco among the worldwide touristic destination in 2001 and 2010, as well as its ranking in Africa and Middle East in 2009.

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